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Corn lights at 50w and above tend to have loud fans to help keep them cool. That's probably fine if they're outdoors and you don't have to listen to them, but i

Corn lights at 50w and above tend to have loud fans to help keep them cool. That's probably fine if they're outdoors and you don't have to listen to them, but indoors that can be tiring. At the very least, I'd suggest looking closely at the bulbs you're buying to see where they switch over to using fans.

vladvasiliu 5y ago
I've had good experience with this Chinese model from Amazon [0]. It's 60W, and it's been working fine for 10h a day for more than two years. [0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B078YC481V/ https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B078YC481V/
- mdrzn 5y ago
  Would you recommend a warm or cold white light, after having one for over two years? At the moment I only have 2 rgb led lightbulbs, which have less than 1k lumens each, so I'm thinking of getting more "white-only" bulbs for more lightning but I'm curious about the warmth of the light: I literally only always go below 2700k.
  - bradknowles 5y ago
    For a garage, a cold white light (higher color temperature) will give you more lumens per watt, so you'll see brighter light. If the CRI is high enough, then things won't look too weird and your eyes should adjust to what just looks to be a brighter and whiter light. A higher color temperature light is usually also okay or even recommended for kitchen and bathroom use, if the CRI is high enough. A warmer light (lower color temperature) is usually recommended for living rooms, bedrooms, and other places where you're going to be participating in more leisurely activities, or sleeping, etc.... Ideally, you'd have lights that can cover the gamut and switch from high color temperatures (whiter light) during the day, and lower color temperatures (warmer light) at night, and then you would be able to adjust in each location for the type of light that you like best and that seems to be best suited to the activity. There are some "white" lights that include LED modules with two or more color temperature set points, and allow you to adjust where you want things to be between them. But they are more expensive, and more difficult to find.
  - vladvasiliu 5y ago
    It depends on the use case. As the sibling says, you want both, ideally a gamut, depending on the use case. When I bought the light in my comment, I already had some Hue white lights, but they didn't make much of a difference during the day. Some pencil Osram lights [0] did help somewhat in the morning, so that's when I decided I should try a "serious" LED light. As this was for working during the day, I wanted a cooler light, but my experience with other "cool white" lights was that they looked too much like hospitals, so I settled somewhere in the middle. While I never tried to measure the temperature, it's definitely cooler than the Hues and Osrams, but I still find it pleasant. [0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B071JSB5D1 https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B071JSB5D1 - R7s socket, 118 mm, 2700K. I had grabbed those because there were two lamps with this socket in the apartment I was renting at the time.
- bradknowles 5y ago
  That ASIN does not appear to be available in the Amazon.com website. I'll have to see if I can find the links for the models I'm currently using.
  - vladvasiliu 5y ago
    Judging solely but the pictures, there are a bunch of "models" available. As I've only ever had the one, I can't comment on how the quality varies.
Cthulhu_ 5y ago
That was what I was wondering about; I've got some 5-8W LED spots here and there and they get really hot, to the point where I'm confident the heat is why they die after a few years at most (much shorter than the advertised 10 year lifespan).

vladvasiliu 5y ago

I've had good experience with this Chinese model from Amazon [0]. It's 60W, and it's been working fine for 10h a day for more than two years. [0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B078YC481V/ https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B078YC481V/

mdrzn 5y ago
Would you recommend a warm or cold white light, after having one for over two years? At the moment I only have 2 rgb led lightbulbs, which have less than 1k lumens each, so I'm thinking of getting more "white-only" bulbs for more lightning but I'm curious about the warmth of the light: I literally only always go below 2700k.
- bradknowles 5y ago
  For a garage, a cold white light (higher color temperature) will give you more lumens per watt, so you'll see brighter light. If the CRI is high enough, then things won't look too weird and your eyes should adjust to what just looks to be a brighter and whiter light. A higher color temperature light is usually also okay or even recommended for kitchen and bathroom use, if the CRI is high enough. A warmer light (lower color temperature) is usually recommended for living rooms, bedrooms, and other places where you're going to be participating in more leisurely activities, or sleeping, etc.... Ideally, you'd have lights that can cover the gamut and switch from high color temperatures (whiter light) during the day, and lower color temperatures (warmer light) at night, and then you would be able to adjust in each location for the type of light that you like best and that seems to be best suited to the activity. There are some "white" lights that include LED modules with two or more color temperature set points, and allow you to adjust where you want things to be between them. But they are more expensive, and more difficult to find.
- vladvasiliu 5y ago
  It depends on the use case. As the sibling says, you want both, ideally a gamut, depending on the use case. When I bought the light in my comment, I already had some Hue white lights, but they didn't make much of a difference during the day. Some pencil Osram lights [0] did help somewhat in the morning, so that's when I decided I should try a "serious" LED light. As this was for working during the day, I wanted a cooler light, but my experience with other "cool white" lights was that they looked too much like hospitals, so I settled somewhere in the middle. While I never tried to measure the temperature, it's definitely cooler than the Hues and Osrams, but I still find it pleasant. [0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B071JSB5D1 https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B071JSB5D1 - R7s socket, 118 mm, 2700K. I had grabbed those because there were two lamps with this socket in the apartment I was renting at the time.
bradknowles 5y ago
That ASIN does not appear to be available in the Amazon.com website. I'll have to see if I can find the links for the models I'm currently using.
- vladvasiliu 5y ago
  Judging solely but the pictures, there are a bunch of "models" available. As I've only ever had the one, I can't comment on how the quality varies.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

That was what I was wondering about; I've got some 5-8W LED spots here and there and they get really hot, to the point where I'm confident the heat is why they die after a few years at most (much shorter than the advertised 10 year lifespan).